I'm not following your logic. If $x is the price of a popular item, and the cost goes up as things become popular, that implies the cost would go DOWN as things become less popular (more supply than demand). Therefore, unpopular stuff would have to go down in price so that it can compete with the more popular items.
How do you get someone to buy a 2003 car when the 2004 models are out? (except if your Nissan and the newer Maxima looks like crap compare to the 2003 model).
The explaination to your coke example is very simple. The price goes up during peak hours because of INCREASE DEMAND. It is popular! During off peak hours, it is less popular and less demand.
Now have a vending machine with beer in it right next to that coke machine. Don't you think the price of coke would stay the same because it cannot compete with people who want to drink their stress away? So, to entice people to drink coke, wouldn't you want it to stand out? Cheaper price will do that.
Anyway, this is off topic. My point is that Circuit City, Sam Goody, Amazon, etc. are pretty much required to sell music at a given price. Otherwise they don't get shipments of newer items. If Circuit City could price the CDs at a level that is competitive, it would definitely be lower than the current price, simply because there would be more SUPPLY of the CDs at a lower pice. Circuit City, buying in bulk, could easily out price a small music shop. Now there is competition on the same album. I'm not talking about new album's competing with old albums, or N'Sync vs. Backside boys.
I believe the law is that they cannot autodial your number. However, if you give a company your cell phone as your home number (as I do), then they are allowed to call you on it to sell you things. Discover Card does this to me all the time, but now they have finally stopped.
I tell the operators they have called my cell phone and they hang up very fast. They don't call back either.
Honestly, if someone wants to track what I do and what I like, more power to 'em.
I'll give you a hint, I wake up, shower, go to work, have a few beers and go to sleep. On the weekends, I get up, shower (sometimes), have more beer and go to sleep.
So, I'll use everything out there that they can track me with because I do not have anything to hide (except sleeping at work).
I'm not paranoid. I do not feel that someone sits there and watches my E-Z pass register (or not). With the size of the internet and the amount of data that comes though, it is impossible to monitor it all. So, frankly, I don't care if they have it. Doesn't mean they really look at it. And if they did, they are absolute losers that need something better to do while on the crapper.
Everyone is right, the quality is FINE! People went from LPs to cassets for ease of use. We then went to CDs because of their ease of use. Why the hell would we switch to a different CD that poses the same problems like scratching, skipping, and storage room? People are not only switching to DVDs because of the video quality, they are doing it also for its compact size, dependability and EASE OF USE. They have seen the memory stick, compact flash, smart media card and the freakin INTERNET. Lets stop this mechanical crap and release a quality, full function, hi-fi solid state media system. Yea I could break a memory stick, but if it falls on the floor, it probably would survive a hell of a lot better than a CD.
Lets get away with CDs, tapes, and anything else that requires motion to work. Skipping, clutterd desks, and dependability would increase significantly. Sounds more practical to me.
Plus, who can tell the difference with this high quality music when your roomates, parents, or spouse keeps telling you to lower the damn stereo....
I agre, but NASA is a government agency. They are funed by tax payers like you and me. I agree that their scratch resistant glass coatings, pace-maker, and other results of their experiements are wonderful. But if NASA really wanted a Budget, they would put a date one when to go to Mars. If everyone I talk with remembers where they were when we landed on the moon, then it must have been popular. Even my mother remembers and she hates science.
Now I agree that NASA may want to go to Mars, but I don't think they do everything they can to get there. There are too many political projects and too much focus on science. May we really need to know how fish live in zero gravity, but that is not getting us to Mars any time soon. They are too unfocused and inefficient nowadays.
This is why Space needs to be commercialized. I don't even care if Microsoft owned space. Make it profitable, then there will be excitment. Hell, I'll bet more science will come out of it.
Because they still haven't figured out that we rather see people bouncing on the moon or cruising on Mars that going around a huge cicle in a space station. Space can be cool, but these Nasa nerds do not have a clue about public relations.
No one dreams about living on a bus-sized tin box going 17,000 MPH only to end up in the same location it was about 90 min before. They dream about walking on the Moon, landing on Mars, they dream about going some place...
Perhaps. Or it might mean that you hate our government, which is quite possible to do without hating our country; the country encompasses much more than the government. Or it might mean something else entirely. The flag is merely a symbols, and it may mean different things to different people. As Mark Twain said, "To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags--this is loyalty to unreason, it is pure animal."
Now you know why I'm not a big fan of books. A Flag usually represents the country as a hole. The good, the bad, and the ugly
You are also free to stay, even if your beliefs and actions are unpopular
This is true. But that does not give you a right to deface a nation. That is exactly what is happening. Do the people in the US who burn the flag feel the same way as the people in Pakistan who burn the flag during our war on terror? They both give the same message.
How does it support our country? Will having children recite the pledge keep someone here from going hungry, or put a roof over their head? Will it change the outcome of a battle, or prevent foreign terrorists from crashing airliners into skyscrapers?
Do you honestly feel removing "under god" or being polictally correct in our laws will protect our country from terrorist? That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Going hungry and homeless won't be changed either. You may blame the government's policies on that, I blame irresponsible people. You can't prove that saying the Pledge will not change the outcome of a battle just like you can't prove removing "under god" will change the outcome either.
The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It doesn't say "specific religion." Having the words "under God" or even "under god" in the pledge certainly is "respecting an establishment of religion," even if it isn't a specific religion.
This is exactly why I quoted the definition of God. As you can see, it does not clearly define "religion". So as soon as someone, like you did, mentions the responsiblities of Congress, it is irrelevant.
The core issue isn't offensiveness. But "under a supreme value" is just as offensive to me as "under God," since I do NOT believe in a "supreme value".
Ahh, the core issue IS offensiveness. The guy who brought this case to court was offend that his daughter was led by a teacher in a public school. I guess you're offended, by the word offensive. A supreme value can be anything. You may believe in nothing. That has a value of 0. My supreme value may be 39343, althought it is probably 0. My point was that the word god means manythings. Unfortunately paranoid, low-selfesteem people cannot understand that it is more of a "saying" than of "preaching".
If Congress wants to fix this problem, they should simply remove the words "under God," which were only added as part of McCarthy's Communist scare anyhow.
I see you are suffering from a paranoid lifestyle. If you can show me the link between "under god" and a communist government like Russia had, I'm sure it will be a good read. I think there is no real problem. It is not like world peace, or global warming is going to go away if these words are removed or changed. If people can realize there's a difference betwene god and christian god, than they will see how silly this is. And since you couldn't pick that out, it is a good thing you did not quote my polytheism definition and response. I wonder how my parents made it in life, given they grew up with "under god" just like I did.
The funniest post, truly is the person who said, "Thank God". People can read into that one as much as they would like. Just like they can with the people who say, "I could careless" That means you care, which is not the intent of the saying.
We live in a free society, but that doesn't mean we do not exist as a nation. I constantly hear how great the US diversity (both religiously and culturally) is. And I agree, diversity is something special. However, the US is its own nation, with its own culture and standards. There is absolutely nothing wrong with saluting a flag every morning. A flag is a symbol. It stands for the US and everthing it represents. That's why people burn it in other countries. They hate us AND our beliefs. That's fine. If you burn the flag here, I think you should be deported. It directly means you hate our nation and our beliefs. We live in a free society. With that, you are free to leave.
If you can tell me how forcing inconsiderate and growing children to at least stand salute the flag is propaganda, I'd love to hear it. This is the US and the Pledge is supporting our country. I, for one, do not obviously agree with everything our country does, but that doesn't mean I am not will to stand up and respect it. I live here. I may be of Irish/German descent, but I'm 100% American. If we need propaganda to brain wash our children into thinking that the USA is a good place, then that sounds like child abuse. If it was such a BAD place, competent parents would move to another country to give their children the best possible and humane living conditions. Places where they are free to complain, free to sit on their butts all day, free to say "Thank the supreme value because if I say god I may offend someone". Someplace, like....
[No need to reply saying, "well, technically, peole from Mexico are American too because they are on the same continent", you know what I mean]
Now, for all the people who can't get over the words "under God", we need to look at it more closely. I don't believe in God. I do not care if you do or don't. You have a mind, use it to decide what you want, that is what I did. But, I do have the ability realize that MY GOD, is not a religious God and your god may be my God, Bin Laden's God, Michael Jackson, or you may worship everyone in N'Sync. Let's take a look at the word God and other words in the Webster dictionary...
Polythesim: belief in or worship of more than one god
--Does this mean, the belief in multiple Christian Gods? Or do we have to rewrite the dictionary to clearly indicate what God means? Let's look at the definition of God?
God: 1 capitalized : the supreme or ultimate reality: as a : the Being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshiped as creator and ruler of the universe b Christian Science : the incorporeal divine Principle ruling over all as eternal Spirit : infinite Mind
2 : a being or object believed to have more than natural attributes and powers and to require human worship; specifically : one controlling a particular aspect or part of reality
3 : a person or thing of supreme value
4 : a powerful ruler
----Where does it say that God has to be Christian? Granted, Part 1b says Christian, but I think there's a coincidence that Christians actually call their God, God. So, it would be wrong for Webster to leave that out, since it is a true definition of the word. I believe in #3 for example.
If the court said to change God to god, then I would agree. But since we can't speak with Captial letters, and the entire complaint to the court was over the spoken allegiance, that point is irrelvant.
So, "one nation, under a supreme value" is not so offensive, but god is easier to say.
Therefore, by saying the word god by no means requires the belief in Jesus, or any other specific religion. Saying the Pledge, by its title, is showing Allegiance to the COUNTRY and NOT to a religion and likewise is not a prayer. When I'm about to jump out of a plane while going skydiving, I definitely will not say the Pledge of Allegiance. Like many previous posts, someone is always offended. I'm probably offending many English majors with what I'm writing here. Given the Webster definition, using god on money and in the Pledge, does not dictate what religion, or even if we should have one. Language is a tool to communicate an idea. The ideas behind "under god" and "in god we trust" are high morals, respect, and decency, not of worship.
Therefore, deal with it.
Our basic freedoms:
1) Freedom of speach = Freedom not to speak = Freedom to say what you like. "One nation under Barny..." Why not just salute the flag and keep your mouth shut? It is unarguably unconstitutional to make some say the Pledege.
2) Free will = Free to go.
And my last comment is, people have to stop being so paranoid. Believe it or not, the country is not out to get you. The Pledge may use the word "God" but that doesn't mean if you don't believe in a Christian god, that the flag is going to jump off the pole and hit you on the head. Take things at face value and in context. Your kid's first grade teacher, or your kids school, is not trying to covert their religion. They are simply demonstrating and showing respect for the country we live in. If you hate this country so much that you can't stand showing respect for it, leave.
What ever happened to just standing there? When growing up, some days I said it, other days I didn't.
There is nothing wrong with standing and saluting a flag. It stands for our country. We live in a free society. You're free to leave if you don't like it....
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The patch has to be that size just like MS Office has to be a few hundred MBs inorder to fit the flight simulator or other uknown add-in programs.
Now I'll get the "Unexpected error has occured because it cannot be found" twice as fast!!! Will the type 2 error now be type 4?
Good thing I work for Intersil! Buy our stock! haha
I'm not following your logic. If $x is the price of a popular item, and the cost goes up as things become popular, that implies the cost would go DOWN as things become less popular (more supply than demand). Therefore, unpopular stuff would have to go down in price so that it can compete with the more popular items.
How do you get someone to buy a 2003 car when the 2004 models are out? (except if your Nissan and the newer Maxima looks like crap compare to the 2003 model).
The explaination to your coke example is very simple. The price goes up during peak hours because of INCREASE DEMAND. It is popular! During off peak hours, it is less popular and less demand.
Now have a vending machine with beer in it right next to that coke machine. Don't you think the price of coke would stay the same because it cannot compete with people who want to drink their stress away? So, to entice people to drink coke, wouldn't you want it to stand out? Cheaper price will do that.
Anyway, this is off topic. My point is that Circuit City, Sam Goody, Amazon, etc. are pretty much required to sell music at a given price. Otherwise they don't get shipments of newer items. If Circuit City could price the CDs at a level that is competitive, it would definitely be lower than the current price, simply because there would be more SUPPLY of the CDs at a lower pice. Circuit City, buying in bulk, could easily out price a small music shop. Now there is competition on the same album. I'm not talking about new album's competing with old albums, or N'Sync vs. Backside boys.
Why not let stores sell music priced by demand?
I believe the law is that they cannot autodial your number. However, if you give a company your cell phone as your home number (as I do), then they are allowed to call you on it to sell you things. Discover Card does this to me all the time, but now they have finally stopped. I tell the operators they have called my cell phone and they hang up very fast. They don't call back either.
Honestly, if someone wants to track what I do and what I like, more power to 'em. I'll give you a hint, I wake up, shower, go to work, have a few beers and go to sleep. On the weekends, I get up, shower (sometimes), have more beer and go to sleep. So, I'll use everything out there that they can track me with because I do not have anything to hide (except sleeping at work). I'm not paranoid. I do not feel that someone sits there and watches my E-Z pass register (or not). With the size of the internet and the amount of data that comes though, it is impossible to monitor it all. So, frankly, I don't care if they have it. Doesn't mean they really look at it. And if they did, they are absolute losers that need something better to do while on the crapper.
Haven't they realized how annoying CDs are?
Everyone is right, the quality is FINE! People went from LPs to cassets for ease of use. We then went to CDs because of their ease of use. Why the hell would we switch to a different CD that poses the same problems like scratching, skipping, and storage room? People are not only switching to DVDs because of the video quality, they are doing it also for its compact size, dependability and EASE OF USE. They have seen the memory stick, compact flash, smart media card and the freakin INTERNET. Lets stop this mechanical crap and release a quality, full function, hi-fi solid state media system. Yea I could break a memory stick, but if it falls on the floor, it probably would survive a hell of a lot better than a CD.
Lets get away with CDs, tapes, and anything else that requires motion to work. Skipping, clutterd desks, and dependability would increase significantly. Sounds more practical to me.
Plus, who can tell the difference with this high quality music when your roomates, parents, or spouse keeps telling you to lower the damn stereo....
I agre, but NASA is a government agency. They are funed by tax payers like you and me. I agree that their scratch resistant glass coatings, pace-maker, and other results of their experiements are wonderful. But if NASA really wanted a Budget, they would put a date one when to go to Mars. If everyone I talk with remembers where they were when we landed on the moon, then it must have been popular. Even my mother remembers and she hates science. Now I agree that NASA may want to go to Mars, but I don't think they do everything they can to get there. There are too many political projects and too much focus on science. May we really need to know how fish live in zero gravity, but that is not getting us to Mars any time soon. They are too unfocused and inefficient nowadays. This is why Space needs to be commercialized. I don't even care if Microsoft owned space. Make it profitable, then there will be excitment. Hell, I'll bet more science will come out of it.
Because they still haven't figured out that we rather see people bouncing on the moon or cruising on Mars that going around a huge cicle in a space station. Space can be cool, but these Nasa nerds do not have a clue about public relations. No one dreams about living on a bus-sized tin box going 17,000 MPH only to end up in the same location it was about 90 min before. They dream about walking on the Moon, landing on Mars, they dream about going some place...
Perhaps. Or it might mean that you hate our government, which is quite possible to do without hating our country; the country encompasses much more than the government. Or it might mean something else entirely. The flag is merely a symbols, and it may mean different things to different people. As Mark Twain said, "To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags--this is loyalty to unreason, it is pure animal."
You are also free to stay, even if your beliefs and actions are unpopular
How does it support our country? Will having children recite the pledge keep someone here from going hungry, or put a roof over their head? Will it change the outcome of a battle, or prevent foreign terrorists from crashing airliners into skyscrapers?
The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." It doesn't say "specific religion." Having the words "under God" or even "under god" in the pledge certainly is "respecting an establishment of religion," even if it isn't a specific religion.
The core issue isn't offensiveness. But "under a supreme value" is just as offensive to me as "under God," since I do NOT believe in a "supreme value".
If Congress wants to fix this problem, they should simply remove the words "under God," which were only added as part of McCarthy's Communist scare anyhow.
The funniest post, truly is the person who said, "Thank God". People can read into that one as much as they would like. Just like they can with the people who say, "I could careless" That means you care, which is not the intent of the saying.
We live in a free society, but that doesn't mean we do not exist as a nation. I constantly hear how great the US diversity (both religiously and culturally) is. And I agree, diversity is something special. However, the US is its own nation, with its own culture and standards. There is absolutely nothing wrong with saluting a flag every morning. A flag is a symbol. It stands for the US and everthing it represents. That's why people burn it in other countries. They hate us AND our beliefs. That's fine. If you burn the flag here, I think you should be deported. It directly means you hate our nation and our beliefs. We live in a free society. With that, you are free to leave.
If you can tell me how forcing inconsiderate and growing children to at least stand salute the flag is propaganda, I'd love to hear it. This is the US and the Pledge is supporting our country. I, for one, do not obviously agree with everything our country does, but that doesn't mean I am not will to stand up and respect it. I live here. I may be of Irish/German descent, but I'm 100% American. If we need propaganda to brain wash our children into thinking that the USA is a good place, then that sounds like child abuse. If it was such a BAD place, competent parents would move to another country to give their children the best possible and humane living conditions. Places where they are free to complain, free to sit on their butts all day, free to say "Thank the supreme value because if I say god I may offend someone". Someplace, like....
[No need to reply saying, "well, technically, peole from Mexico are American too because they are on the same continent", you know what I mean]
Now, for all the people who can't get over the words "under God", we need to look at it more closely. I don't believe in God. I do not care if you do or don't. You have a mind, use it to decide what you want, that is what I did. But, I do have the ability realize that MY GOD, is not a religious God and your god may be my God, Bin Laden's God, Michael Jackson, or you may worship everyone in N'Sync. Let's take a look at the word God and other words in the Webster dictionary...
Polythesim: belief in or worship of more than one god
--Does this mean, the belief in multiple Christian Gods? Or do we have to rewrite the dictionary to clearly indicate what God means? Let's look at the definition of God?
God: 1 capitalized : the supreme or ultimate reality: as a : the Being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshiped as creator and ruler of the universe b Christian Science : the incorporeal divine Principle ruling over all as eternal Spirit : infinite Mind 2 : a being or object believed to have more than natural attributes and powers and to require human worship; specifically : one controlling a particular aspect or part of reality 3 : a person or thing of supreme value 4 : a powerful ruler
----Where does it say that God has to be Christian? Granted, Part 1b says Christian, but I think there's a coincidence that Christians actually call their God, God. So, it would be wrong for Webster to leave that out, since it is a true definition of the word. I believe in #3 for example.
If the court said to change God to god, then I would agree. But since we can't speak with Captial letters, and the entire complaint to the court was over the spoken allegiance, that point is irrelvant.
So, "one nation, under a supreme value" is not so offensive, but god is easier to say.
Therefore, by saying the word god by no means requires the belief in Jesus, or any other specific religion. Saying the Pledge, by its title, is showing Allegiance to the COUNTRY and NOT to a religion and likewise is not a prayer. When I'm about to jump out of a plane while going skydiving, I definitely will not say the Pledge of Allegiance. Like many previous posts, someone is always offended. I'm probably offending many English majors with what I'm writing here. Given the Webster definition, using god on money and in the Pledge, does not dictate what religion, or even if we should have one. Language is a tool to communicate an idea. The ideas behind "under god" and "in god we trust" are high morals, respect, and decency, not of worship.
Therefore, deal with it.
Our basic freedoms:
1) Freedom of speach = Freedom not to speak = Freedom to say what you like. "One nation under Barny..." Why not just salute the flag and keep your mouth shut? It is unarguably unconstitutional to make some say the Pledege.
2) Free will = Free to go.
And my last comment is, people have to stop being so paranoid. Believe it or not, the country is not out to get you. The Pledge may use the word "God" but that doesn't mean if you don't believe in a Christian god, that the flag is going to jump off the pole and hit you on the head. Take things at face value and in context. Your kid's first grade teacher, or your kids school, is not trying to covert their religion. They are simply demonstrating and showing respect for the country we live in. If you hate this country so much that you can't stand showing respect for it, leave.
What ever happened to just standing there? When growing up, some days I said it, other days I didn't. There is nothing wrong with standing and saluting a flag. It stands for our country. We live in a free society. You're free to leave if you don't like it....